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Selling Us Wars Is A Collection Of Essays By Renowned Experts From Around The World. It Examines The Excuses For War - Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Failed States, Drugs, Humanitarian Intervention, And Democracy - And Analyzes The Pretexts For The Us Invasions Of Afghanistan And Iraq, As Well As Washington's Aggressive Policies In Colombia, Palestine, And Iran. It Gets Behind The Subterfuges To Expose How Washington's Spin-doctors Worked To Present Its Wars As Humane, Lawful, And Necessary To Keep Americans Safe - And Why The Campaigns Sometimes Succeeded.--jacket. Foreword / Tariq Ali -- Introduction / Achin Vanaik -- The Capitalist Conjuncture : Overaccumulation, Financial Crises, And The Retreat From Globalization / Walden Bello -- Manufacturing Common Sense, Or Cultural Hegemony For Beginners / Susan George -- The Iron Click : American Exceptionalism And Us Empire / Mike Marqusee -- Political Terrorism & The Us Imperial Project / Achin Vanaik -- The Empire Of Fear / Zia Mian -- Humanitarian Intervention & Us Hegemony : A Reconceptualization / Mariano Aguirre -- And The Name For Our Profits Is Democracy / Phyllis Bennis -- Something Out There : State Weakness As Imperial Pretext /
- Author
- Achin Vanaik
- Publisher
- Northampton, Mass.: Olive Branch Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781566566681
- Subjects
- Political Science, Military, Technology
- Rating
- 2.9 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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